14 DAY TRIAL // WebKitGTK+, the open-source and full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine to the GTK+ GUI toolkit used to build modern applications for the GNOME desktop environment was updated today to version 2.16.2.
WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 is just a small bugfix release that only resolves some of the issues users reported since the first maintenance update of the WebKitGTK+ 2.16 stable series. The most prominent change being improved user agent quirks to add compatibility for Google's new login page and YouTube.
This release also attempts to update multiple web inspector icons, adds build improvements when OpenGL is disabled and when X11 is disabled but NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) plugins are enabled, and improves the rendering of animated PNGs.
Other than that, WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 adds better playback support for various live streams and addresses a bunch of rendering issues and crashes. Also today, the WebKitGTK+ 2.14.7 bugfix release for the stable 2.14 series of the software was announced with the same Google and YouTube login page compatibility.
WebKitGTK+ 2.14.7 also includes the improved playback support patch for some live streams. You can download the source tarballs of both WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 and WebKitGTK+ 2.14.7 right now from our website if you want to compile either one on your GNU/Linux distribution and update from a previous release.